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Born in Manchester, England on November 24 1849, Frances Eliza Hodgson was the eldest daughter in a family of two boys and three girls. After her father's death when she was three years old, the Hodgsdons experienced severe financial difficulties. As a young girl, she would scrawl little stories on sheets of old notebooks, as she was unable to afford proper writing materials. In 1865 the family moved to Tennessee where they lived in a log cabin and the teenage Frances set up a little school. She began submitting stories to women's magazines and in a time when most women did not have careers, Frances Eliza Hodgsdon was a literary success. In 1873 she married Dr. Swan Burnett and they had two sons -- Lionel, born 1874, and Vivian, born 1876 -- but the marriage was not a happy one. Her younger son, Vivian, clamoured for something for little boys to read, so Frances wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and modeled the main character after him. In 1890 tragedy struck when her eldest son, Lionel, died of influenza. Frances and Swan separated and finally divorced in 1898, and she went on to remarry Stephen Townshend. Frances moved to Long Island, New York in 1901 and there began to write her two most famous stories -- "A Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden", inspired by her poor childhood and her love for gardening. She became rather eccentric in her old age, but delighted in her grandchildren. Frances Hodgson Burnett died on 29 October 1924.- Writer
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He started to study at the Uppsala University but dropped out to pursue an economically unstable career as a journalist. In 1872 he published the first of his many masterpieces, 'Mäster Olof'. In 1874 he got a position at the Royal Library in Stockholm, which enabled him to marry 'Siri von Essen'. He published his novel 'Röda rummet' in 1879, a novel critical towards the press, the church, the publishers, the parliament and the state departments. With it he started the realism of the 1880s in Swedish literature. By the middle of the 1880s he had enemies everywhere and moved to Switzerland. With his novels 'Giftas' his hostility towards women increased, partly as a result of marital problems. His spoof of the holy communion lead to charges of blasphemy. At the end of the 1880s he wrote several novels about life in the archipelago, for example the successful novel 'Hemsöborna'. At the beginning of the 1890s he was briefly married to the Austrian 'Frida Uhl'. After the divorce he moved to Paris and studied ocultism and alchemy. He suffered from a psychological crisis. In 1901 he married actress Harriet Bosse for whom he wrote the play that he himself considered his best, 'Ett drömspel'. Today he is today considered one of Sweden's most important writers.- Actress
Tatzumbia Dupea was born on 26 July 1849 in Lone Pine, California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 26 February 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Rosalie Ida Straus was born on 6 February 1849 in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany]. She was married to Isidor Straus. She died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- August von Mackensen was born on 6 December 1849 in Haus Leipnitz, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia [now Saxony, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Totenkopfreiter (1917), Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 28 (1915) and Pathé News, No. 100 (1916). He died on 8 November 1945 in Habighorst [now Lower Saxony], Germany.
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James Whitcomb Riley was born on 7 October 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for An Old Sweetheart of Mine (1923), The Girl I Loved (1923) and A Hoosier Romance (1918). He died on 22 July 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.- Writer
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Poet Emma Lazarus was born into a wealthy family in New York City on July 22, 1849. Her first book of poems, "Poems and Translations", was published in 1867, when she was just 18. Renowned author Ralph Waldo Emerson was impressed with her work and praised it, and her next book, "Admetus and Other Poems" in 1871, was dedicated to him. She published a string of well-received poems and verse works over the next few years.
In 1881 she became involved in the plight of the new waves of immigrants to the US, and became a strong advocate of the rights of immigrants, an unpopular stance during a time when many immigrant groups--especially those of Eastern Europe and Ireland--were under attack by anti-immigrant groups in the US, who said they were "polluting" US culture. Her most famous work, "The New Colossus", was chosen to be the inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty, welcoming immigrants coming into New York harbor. It contains what are among the most well-known words in the English language: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free".
She published her last book in 1887, and died in New York City on November 19 that year.- Louis R. Grisel was born on 26 November 1849 in Newcastle, Delaware, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dancer's Peril (1917), The Cinderella Man (1917) and The Moral Deadline (1919). He was married to Mary Q. Johnstone (actress) (1863-1931). He died on 19 November 1928 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA.
- George Berrell (16 December 1849 - 20 April 1933) was an American actor of both the 19th and early 20th Century stage and of the silent era. He appeared in numerous stage plays as well as 55 films over the course of a career that ran from 1850 to 1927.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California.
Little can be found about George Berrell beyond brief descriptions of his film career, however, he was an important though not famous actor, stage manager and director of the 19th Century American theater, and central to the growth of the theater in St. Louis. Born to a theatrical family, he first appeared as an infant on stage at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia in 1850 . As a child he earned his keep and helped support his widowed mother, an actress, by carrying costume baskets for actors in any company of which she might be a member. John Wilkes Booth was one of those, and Berrell speaks affectionately of him in his unpublished autobiography, "Theatrical and Other Reminiscsences." In his late teens and early twenties he roamed the country, often afoot, with the goal of "growing up with the country," as he put it in the autobiography. Shortly after leaving Dr. Barton's Military Academy outside of Philadelphia, he was walking south along the Missouri River when a rider approached him from behind. Dismounting, he introduced himself as Turner Tinnell and as they traveled on by walk and tie, Turner offered Berrell a job teaching school on Keg Island, a Missouri River mud flat island. Berrell accepted and taught there for a year, his students being the children of Confederate fugitives, many former members of Quantrill's Raiders and cohorts of Frank and Jesse James. Illness forced him to leave and he returned to Philadelphia where his mother nursed him back to health. Later he explored the frontier, living for a while in Laramie, Wyoming, where he describes his involvement in the arrest of a corrupt city policeman name Louis Roudepouch.
For a number of years he alternated between traveling the country and working odd jobs, in lumber camps, on the railroad, in drug stores and post offices, doing whatever work he could find. In his late twenties or early thirties he returned to the theater and stayed there until around 1915 when he retired and started working in silent pictures, a job he did not consider on a par with acting in the theater. In 1917 he appeared in John Ford's first full-length film, "Straight Shooting."
The novel, "Shadows and Acts," by Wilson Roberts based in part on Berrell's unpublished autobiography, details his adventurous life and explores the conflicts engendered by his tempestuous relationship with Booth and his life-long friendship with the actress, Catherine Terrell, as well as his pursuit by Miranda Ives, the daughter of a serpent handling preacher he first encountered while teaching on Keg Island. The novel is due to be published in 2011. - Daniel Gilfether was born on 17 January 1849 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Love Liar (1915), Brand's Daughter (1917) and Zollenstein (1917). He died on 3 May 1919 in Long Beach, California, USA.
- Alexander Kielland was born on 18 February 1849 in Stavanger, Norway. He was a writer, known for Søren Søndervold (1942), Sankt Hans fest (1947) and Tørres Snørtevold (1940). He was married to Beate Ramsland and Bertha Elisabeth Rasmusdatter Aarre. He died on 6 April 1906 in Bergen, Norway.
- Luther Burbank was born on 7 March 1849 in Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Elizabeth Jane Waters and Wife: Helen Coleman. He died on 11 April 1926 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
- Aleksander Swietochowski was born on 18 January 1849 in Stoczek Lukowski, Poland, Russian Empire [now Stoczek Lukowski, Lubelskie, Poland]. Aleksander was a writer, known for Klub szachistów (1967). Aleksander died on 25 April 1938 in Golotczyzna, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Alfred Fisher was born on 14 January 1849 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Prince and the Pauper (1915), Beasts of Paradise (1923) and The Fighting American (1924). He died on 26 August 1933 in Glendale, California, USA.
- Digby Bell, a 5' 5" singing comedian, starred in many Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas. He introduced the song, "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo", while playing the Charles Dana Gibson character, Mr. Pipp. Bell was a fervent golfer and New York Giant baseball fan, as was his best friend and frequent co-star DeWolf Hopper.
- Arthur Bigge was born on 18 June 1849 in Linden Hall, Longhorsley, Northumberland, England, UK. He was married to Constance Neville. He died on 31 March 1931 in St James's Palace, London, England, UK.
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Jyotirindranath Tagore was born on 4 May 1849 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. Jyotirindranath is known for Charulata (1964) and The Home and the World (1984). Jyotirindranath died in 1925 in Ranchi, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India.- Writer
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William Ernest Henley was born on 23 August 1849 in Eastgate, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK. William Ernest was a writer, known for Star Trek: Renegades (2015), Invictus (2018) and The Captain (2008). William Ernest was married to Anna Boyle. William Ernest died on 11 July 1903 in Maybury Hill, Woking, Surrey, England, UK.- Arthur Wellesley was born on 15 March 1849 in Hyde Park, London, England, UK. He was married to Kathleen Bulkeley-Williams. He died on 18 June 1934 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav was born on 2 February 1849 in Felsõkubin, Magyar Királyság [now Vysný Kubín, Slovakia]. Pavol Országh was a writer, known for Hájnikova zena (1971), Dve balady (1986) and Herodes a Herodias (1996). Pavol Országh was married to Ilona Nováková. Pavol Országh died on 8 November 1921 in Dolný Kubín, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia].
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Herkomer was a painter who founded an art school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in the 1880s. His film company produced only a handful of films, of which not a single can appears to have survived. He was widely credited with pushing cinema to new artistic heights, with bringing down the pace of the action to a more realistic speed and with taking more care than most with his period costumes and settings. He commissioned scripts from literary sources, notably the novels of Marie Corelli and Thomas Hardy, but none of these seem to have made it on to the screen.- Robert Barr was born on 16 September 1849 in Scotland, UK. Robert was a writer, known for The King's Move in the City (1914) and The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971). Robert died on 21 October 1912 in England, UK.
- Emanuel Reicher was born on 18 June 1849 in Bochnia, Galicia, Austrian Empire [now Malopolskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Crown of Thorns (1923) and Heimat und Fremde (1913). He was married to Lina Harf and Hedwig Kindermann (aka Hedwig Reicher, actress). He died on 15 May 1924 in Berlin, Germany.
- Robert M. Thompson was born on 2 March 1849 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Nice and Friendly (1922). He died on 5 September 1930 in New York, USA.
- F.M. Paget was born on 10 December 1849 in Budock, Cornwall, England, UK. He was married to Martha Chapman. He died on 7 May 1911 in Maida Vale, London, England, UK.
- Elizabeth Baker Bohan was born on 18 August 1849 in Birmingham, England, UK. She was a writer, known for The Argonauts of California - 1849 (1916). She died on 27 August 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Daniel H. Hastings was born on 26 February 1849 in Lamar township, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Jane A. Rankin. He died on 9 January 1903 in the USA.
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Olaf Poulsen was born on 26 April 1849 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a cinematographer, known for Exprestoget (1922), Kgl. skuespiller Olaf Poulsen i sit paaklædningsværelse paa det kgl. teater (1913) and Zachariæs Selskab (1906). He died on 26 March 1923 in Fredensborg, Denmark.- Henry Belmar was born on 27 April 1849 in Atlantic Ocean. He was an actor, known for Whither Thou Goest (1917), Life's Shop Window (1914) and The Raiders (1916). He was married to Laurel Love. He died on 12 January 1931 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Jacob August Riis was born on 3 May 1849 in Ribe, Denmark.
- Vladimir Davydov was born on 19 January 1849 in Novomirgorod, Bobrinets uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Novomyrhorod, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Svadba Krechinskogo (1908). He died on 23 June 1925 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Robert A. Van Wyck was born on 20 July 1849 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on 14 November 1918 in Paris, France.
- Edmund Barton was born on 18 January 1849 in Glebe, Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, British Empire [now New South Wales, Australia]. He was married to Jane Mason "Jeanie" Ross. He died on 7 January 1920 in Medlow Bath, New South Wales, Australia.
- Joseph-Simon Galliéni was born on 24 April 1849 in Saint-Béat, France. He died on 27 May 1916 in Versailles, France.
- Franz von Schoenthan was born on 20 June 1849 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer, known for Frau Sylvelin (1938), For Lykke og Ære (1915) and Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1919). He died on 2 December 1913 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
- Mrs. O.F. Walton was born on 9 August 1849 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. Mrs. O.F. was a writer, known for The Old Arm Chair (1920), A Peep Behind the Scenes (1918) and A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929). Mrs. O.F. was married to Octavius Frank Walton. Mrs. O.F. died in 1939 in Leigh, Kent, England, UK.
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J.H. Erkko was born on 16 January 1849 in Orimattila, Finland. J.H. is known for A Respectable Tragedy (1998), Land of Hope (2018) and Peacemaker (2020). J.H. died on 16 November 1906.- Wilhelm Voigt was born on 13 February 1849 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Prussia [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He died on 3 March 1922 in Luxembourg.
- Karel Veselý was born on 28 January 1849 in Trubín, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Z lásky (1929), Dáma z baru (1924) and Prazské deti (1928). He died on 19 April 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- British essayist, literary critic and biographer Edmund Gosse was born in London in 1849. His father was a zoologist, who later became somewhat of a religious fanatic, belonging to a very conservative, fundamentalist sect called the Plymouth Brethren. The father did not believe in public education, and consequently Edmund was schooled at home; he never attended an actual "school" until he began college.
In 1867, at age 18, he was appointed assistant librarian at the British Museum. In 1875 he went to work for the Board of Trade. He eventually became acquaintances, and then friends, with many of the major figures in British literature of the day, such as 'Rudyard Kipling', 'George Bernard Shaw', 'Henry James' and 'Max Beerbohm'.
He was a lecturer in English Literature at Cambridge's Trinity College from 1884-90. In 1904 he left his post at the Board of Trade to become Librarian at the House of Lords. In 1925 he was knighted, being made Commander of the Order of the Bath 1907.
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Vilhelm Sefve was born on 11 March 1849 in Munka-Ljungby, Skåne, Sweden. Vilhelm is known for Järnets änglar (2007), Holy Mess (2015) and Spede show (1968). Vilhelm died in 1929.- Hanna von und zu Liechtenstein was born on 13 August 1849 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Johann Strauß an der schönen blauen Donau (1913). She was married to Aloys Franz de Paula Maria von und zu Liechtenstein. She died on 31 January 1925 in Baden, Lower Austria, Austria.
- Sergei Vitte was born on 29 June 1849 in Tiflis [now Tbilisi, Georgia]. He died on 13 March 1915 in St Petersburg, Russia.
- Samuel H. Ashbridge was born on 5 December 1849 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He died in 1906.
- Maud Granger was born on 25 December 1849 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for The White Pearl (1915), Zaza (1915) and The Runaway Wife (1915). She was married to W.R. Baxter and Alfred Cecil Calmour (1857-1912) playwright. She died on 17 August 1928 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Comyns Carr was born on 1 March 1849 in Marylebone, Middlesex, England, UK. Comyns was a writer, known for Called Back (1914). Comyns was married to Alice Vansittart. Comyns died on 13 December 1916 in London, England, UK.
- Józef Mikulski was born on 1 July 1849 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Tredowata (1926). He died on 6 September 1928 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Anne Charlotte Leffler was born on 1 October 1849 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was a writer, known for Sanna kvinnor (1991). She was married to Pasquale del Pezzo and Gustaf Edgren. She died on 21 October 1892 in Naples, Italy.
- Thomas Russell Sullivan was born on 21 November 1849 in Brown County, Indiana, USA. Thomas Russell was a writer, known for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908) and The Passion of Jekyll & Hyde (2019). Thomas Russell was married to Lucy Wadsworth. Thomas Russell died on 28 June 1916 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Alexander Duff was born on 10 November 1849 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was married to Princess Louise. He died on 29 January 1912 in Aswan, Egypt.